Full Text of this Amendment

SA 4. Mr. McCAIN submitted an amendment intended to be proposed by him to the bill S. 223, to modernize the air traffic control system, improve the safety, reliability, and availability of transportation by air in the United States, provide modernization of the air traffic control system, reauthorize the Federal Aviation Administration, and for other purposes; which was ordered to lie on the table; as follows:

Beginning on page 128, strike line 5 and all that follows through page 141, line 9, and insert the following:
SEC. 411. REPEAL OF ESSENTIAL AIR SERVICE PROGRAM.
(a) In General.--Subchapter II of chapter 417 of title 49, United States Code, is repealed.
(b) Conforming Amendments.--Title 49, United State Code, is further amended--
(1) in section 329(b)(1), by striking "except that" and all the follows through the semicolon;
(2) in section 40109(f)(3)(B), by striking ", including the minimum" and all that follows through "this title";
(3) in section 40117(e)(2), by striking subparagraph (B) and redesignating subparagraphs (C) through (F) as subparagraphs (B) through (E), respectively;
(4) in section 41110--
(A) in subsection (a)(2)(B), by striking "41712, and 41731-41742" and inserting "and 41712"; and
(B) in subsection (c)--
(i) in paragraph (1), by striking "carrier--" and all that follows through "does not provide" and inserting "carrier does not provide"; and
(ii) in paragraph (2), by striking "(1)(B)" and inserting "(1)"; and
(5) in section 47124(b)(3)(C), by striking clause (iv) and redesignating clauses (v) through (vii) as clauses (iv) through (vi), respectively.
(As printed in the Congressional Record for the Senate on Jan 31, 2011.)